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Crouch with a lance in rest, like a warrior fenced in his armor,
Guarding your head2 from the blow, and the head will shelter the body.
” This answer had already been uttered by the priestess when the envoys arrived in Argos and entered the council chamber to speak as they were charged. [4] Then the Argives answered to what had been said that they would do as was asked of them if they might first make a thirty years peace with Lacedaemonia and if the command of half the allied power were theirs. It was their right to have the full command, but they would nevertheless be content with half.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), ORA´CULUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ARGOS
- Smith's Bio, Cleome'nes I.
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- Plato, Laws, Plat. Laws 3.692e
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- Herodotus, Histories, 6.77
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- LSJ, ἀποχράω
- LSJ, φυ^λάσσω
- LSJ, ἧμαι
- LSJ, ἡγέομαι
- LSJ, περικτίονες
- LSJ, προβόλ-αιος
- LSJ, σπένδω
- LSJ, συνωμ-ότης